Triple

T8578365
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Gardner (philosopher) E203105 entity
Predicate name P16 FINISHED
Object John Gardner
John Gardner was a prominent British legal philosopher known for his influential work on the nature of law, responsibility, and moral philosophy, particularly during his tenure as Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford.
E744190 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: John Gardner | Statement: [John Gardner (philosopher), name, John Gardner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Gardner
Context triple: [John Gardner (philosopher), name, John Gardner]
  • A. John Gardner
    John Gardner was an American novelist and literary critic best known for works like "Grendel" and "The Sunlight Dialogues," as well as for his influential writings on the craft and morality of fiction.
  • B. John Lowell Gardner Jr.
    John Lowell Gardner Jr. was a prominent Boston businessman and art patron best known as the husband and collaborator of collector Isabella Stewart Gardner in building their renowned art collection.
  • C. John Gardner (British writer)
    John Gardner was a British author best known for his James Bond continuation novels and his crime and spy fiction.
  • D. William Merrill
    William Merrill was an individual significant enough in local history that the town of Merrillville, Indiana, was named in his honor.
  • E. Murray Kinnell
    Murray Kinnell was an English-born character actor active in early 20th-century American cinema, known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: John Gardner
Triple: [John Gardner (philosopher), name, John Gardner]
Generated description
John Gardner was a prominent British legal philosopher known for his influential work on the nature of law, responsibility, and moral philosophy, particularly during his tenure as Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Gardner
Target entity description: John Gardner was a prominent British legal philosopher known for his influential work on the nature of law, responsibility, and moral philosophy, particularly during his tenure as Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford.
  • A. John Gardner
    John Gardner was an American novelist and literary critic best known for works like "Grendel" and "The Sunlight Dialogues," as well as for his influential writings on the craft and morality of fiction.
  • B. John Lowell Gardner Jr.
    John Lowell Gardner Jr. was a prominent Boston businessman and art patron best known as the husband and collaborator of collector Isabella Stewart Gardner in building their renowned art collection.
  • C. John Gardner (British writer)
    John Gardner was a British author best known for his James Bond continuation novels and his crime and spy fiction.
  • D. William Merrill
    William Merrill was an individual significant enough in local history that the town of Merrillville, Indiana, was named in his honor.
  • E. Murray Kinnell
    Murray Kinnell was an English-born character actor active in early 20th-century American cinema, known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69ca8328ebe481909a8c038fa79959b4 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbea989bec81909b8c8b4af7c568ff completed March 31, 2026, 3:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce89a5d18c81908a21cf5e5944d6e1 completed April 2, 2026, 3:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce8ac1dba48190bbad47a762130aab completed April 2, 2026, 3:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce8eae70008190b2c7bbe4ce8d4c0a completed April 2, 2026, 3:43 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:22 p.m.